Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Google Wipes Out OnlineTV

I woke up today to find some kind of strange retribution from Google. I received and email from a fan that told me that OnlineTV did not exist on the Google search engine anymore. I was not amused. Going to google and searching for “Onlinetv� produced no relevant results! This was incredible.

An MSN search was much more what it had been.

For almost all our 9 years here on the Internet, webcasting events from around the world. Goggle had us as the first non-paid entry followed by 100’s of other page results from our site all the years Google has been around. Today I did not find anything relevant at all. The only result was OnlineTV 2, which recently worked a deal with us to market their OnlineTV Player. I searched for “Online TV� which usually resulted in being at least listed on the first page. Nada. I finally searched for “onlinetv.com� and came up as non-existent. This search always produced my sites and all the searches produced 100’s of relevant links to my sites. Now, nothing. As if OnlineTV never existed.

Well, we know we own the US Registered Trademark for the name, and have always owned the domain OnlineTV.com since it existed. It has been highly listed on Google since day one of Google, as it is the relevant return of a search for this keyword "onlinetv". So what has changed?

OnlineTV has recently added articles by its founder Rick Siegel about 911. It has been only a couple weeks and this strange event happens. We don’t know why Google took us from existence. Our site is fine, it contains no abuse, no illegal content, we are the Trademark owners; header tags are fine, yet without notice we are wiped from the largest search engine in the world. This after being here for 9+ years!

We encourage you to go to Google and search for “onlinetv� then go to the bottom of the page where it says “Dissatisfied? Help us improve� and tell them you can’t get a relevant return on their search. Explain that it is easy to find multiple relevant returns on your search from MSN and the site is not listed anywhere on Google. It does not even exist as “OnlineTV.com�. For the space to fill in the proper URL to be returned; put our main site "http://www.onlinetv.com/nuke" and let’s hope that somehow our listing shall return to the world.

This is a travesty and should be remedied quickly.

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